Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In libraries, a room devoted to stacks of book-shelves; a book-room.
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Examples
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Open stacks doesn't appear in the index although stack architecture and stack-room do.
Archive 2005-11-01 Heather Morrison 2005
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Open stacks doesn't appear in the index although stack architecture and stack-room do.
Ranganathan & Open Access Anita Coleman 2005
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The old man had received strict orders to preserve silence in the reading-room when the librarian could not be there, and yet one day she returned from the stack-room to find the place in a most shocking state of confusion.
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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When the young-lady librarian arrived from Albany and approved enthusiastically of the stack-room and cataloguing, the architect's cup of satisfaction fairly ran over; and when he went away, leaving her installed in her handsome oak-finished office, he could hardly refrain from embracing her, so exactly the right touch did she add to the whole thing with her fresh white shirt-waist and pretty, business-like airs.
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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In the stack-room below, on sixty-three miles of shelves, stood a million others ready to come at her slightest nod.
The Foolish Virgin 1915
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